Almost all of our papers are available as PDFs. Most are scanned versions and, thus, not searchable with Acrobat. Email Curt Burgess is you have any questions.

Devitto, Z., & Burgess, C. (in press). Brain and Cognition. (Not yet available in PDF format)

Alison, J., & Burgess, C. (in press). Brain and Cognition. (Not yet available in PDF format)

Buchanan, L., Westbury, C., & Burgess, C. (in press). Characterizing semantic space: Neighborhood effects in word recognition. Psychonomics Bulletin & Review. (Not yet available in PDF format)

Peterson, R. R., & Burgess, C., Dell, G. S., & Eberhard, K. (2001). Dissociation between syntactic and semantic processing during idiom comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1223 - 1237. Available in PDF format (8.6MB)

Burgess, C. (2001). Representing and resolving semantic ambiguity: A contribution from high-dimensional memory modeling. In Gorfein, D.S. (Ed.), On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: Perspectives on Resolving Lexical Ambiguity. APA Press. Available in PDF format (5.5MB)

Burgess, C., Conley, P., Decker, C., & Devitto, Z. (2001). The Psychology Graduate Applicant's Portal. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33, 263-266. Available in PDF format (1.0MB)

Conley, P., Burgess, C., & Glosser, G. (2001). Age and Alzheimer's: A computational model of changes in representation. Brain and Cognition, 46, 86-90. Available in PDF format (1.3MB)

Burgess, C. (2000). Theory and Operational Definitions in Computational Memory Models: A Response to Glenberg and Robertson (2000). Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 402 - 408. (Available in PDF format) (40k)

Li, P., Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (2000). The acquisition of word meaning through global lexical co-occurrences. Proceedings of the Thirty-first annual Child Language Research Forum (pp. 167 - 178). Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information. Available in PDF format (5.6MB)

Buchanan, L., Kiss, I., & Burgess, C. (2000). Word and nonword reading in a deep dyslexic: Phonological information enhances performance. Brain and Cognition, 43, 65-68. (Not yet available in PDF format)

Conley, P., Burgess, C. (2000). Age effects in a computational model of memory. Brain and Cognition, 43, 104 108. Available in PDF format (1.9MB)

Segalowitz, S.J., & Burgess, C. (2000). Neuropsychology in the new millennium: Prognostications, dreams, and warnings. Brain and Cognition, 1-3. Available in PDF format (812kB)

Conley, P., & Burgess, C. (2000). A computational approach to modeling population differences. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 32, 274 - 279. Available in PDF format (3.1MB)

Burgess, C. & Lund, K. (2000) The dynamics of meaning in memory. In Dietrich & Markman (Eds.), Cognitive Dynamics: Conceptual Change in Humans and Machines. Available in PDF format (15MB)

Audet, C., & Burgess, C. (1999). Using a high-dimensional memory model to evaluate the properties of abstract and concrete words. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 37 - 42). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Available in PDF format (3.6MB)

Livesay, K., & Burgess, C. (1999). The Influence of Verbal Ability on Mediated Priming. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 314 - 319). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Available in PDF format (4.8MB)

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., Keeney, M. (1999). The effect of timecourse and context on the facilitation of semantic features in the cerebral hemispheres. Neuropsychology, 13, 389-403. Available in PDF format (12.0MB)

Atchley, R. A., Keeney, M., & Burgess, C. (1999). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms linking ambiguous word meaning retrieval and creativity. Brain and Cognition, 40, 479 - 499. Available in PDF format (11.2MB)

Conley, P., Burgess, C., & Hage, D. (1999). Large scale databases of proper names. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 31, 215-219. Available in PDF format (2.8MB)

Audet, C., Burgess, C., & Driessen, N. (1999). Redundant representations of categorical and locative relationships in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 40, 29-31. (Not yet available in PDF format)

Burgess, C., & Conley, P. (1999) Representing proper names and objects in a common semantic space: A computational model. Brain and Cognition, xx, xx. Available in PDF format (32KB)

Burgess, C. (1998) From simple associations to the building blocks of language: Modeling meaning in memory with the HAL model. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30, 188-198. [invited address]. Available in PDF format (3.4MB)

Livesay, K., & Burgess, C. (1998). Mediated priming does not rely on weak semantic relatedness or local co-occurrence. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Available in PDF format(1.5 MB)

Audet, C. & Burgess, C. (1998) Distinguishing between manner of motion and inherently directed motion verbs using a high-dimensional memory space and semantic judgments. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (p.66-71). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,998) Evaluating Semantic Neighborhood Effects in Categorical and Locative Priming Inc. Available in PDF format (1.2MB)

Burgess, C., & Conley, P. (1998) Developing semantic representations for proper names. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (p.185-190). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Available in PDF format (1.5MB)

Burgess, C., & Livesay, K. (1998) The effect of corpus size in predicting reaction time in a basic word recognition task: Moving on from Kucera and Francis. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30, 272-277. Available in PDF format (1.6MB)

Burgess, C., Livesay, K., & Lund, K. (1998). Explorations in context space: Words, sentences, discourse. Discourse Processes, 25, 211 - 257. [Invited paper] Available in PDF format (12.4MB)

Atchley, R. A., & Burgess, C. (1998). Contextual influences on meaning retrieval in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 37, 63-66. Available in PDF format (774KB)

Livesay, K., & Burgess, C. (1998). Mediated priming in high-dimensional semantic space: No effect of direct semantic relationships or CO-occurrence Brain and Cognition, 37, 102-105. Available in PDF format (645KB)

Audet, C., Driessen, N., & Burgess, C. (1998) Evaluating semantic neighborhood effects in categorical and locative priming in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 37, 67-69. Available in PDF format (710KB)

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., & Keeney, M. (1998). The differential role of dominance compatibility and association strength in left hemisphere lexical retrieval. Brain and Cognition, 37, 61-63. Available in PDF format (710KB)

Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1998). Modeling cerebral asymmetries of semantic memory using high-dimensional semantic space. In Beeman, M., & Chiarello, C. (Eds.), Right Hemisphere Language Comprehension: Perspectives From Cognitive Neuroscience. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Press. Available in PDF format (24.8MB)

Livesay, K., & Burgess, C. (1997). Mediated priming in high-dimensional meaning space: What is "mediated" in mediated priming? Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 436-441. Available in PDF format (1.8MB)

Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1997). Representing abstract words and emotional connotation in high-dimensional memory space. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 61 - 66). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Available in PDF format (2.3MB)

Psychonomics Society Symposium: Developing models of high-dimensional semantic space (1997) Chaired by C. Burgess & T. K. Landauer. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 2, 53. Available in PDF format (387KB)

Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1997). Modeling parsing constraints with high-dimensional context space. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12, 177-210. [Invited paper] Available in PDF format (6.4MB)

Burgess, C., Livesay, K., & Lund, K. (1996). Modeling Parsing constraints in high-dimensional semantic space: On the use of proper names. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. p 737. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Press. Available in PDF format (452KB)

Buchanan, L., Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1996). Overcrowding in semantic neighborhoods: Modeling deep dyslexia. Brain and Cognition, 30, 111-114. Available in PDF format (968KB)

Atchley, R. A., Keeney, M., & Burgess, C. (1996). Cerebral Hemispheric Mechanisms Linking Ambiguous Word Meaning Retrieval with Subjects Varying in Verbal Creativity. Brain and Cognition, 32,282-284. Available in PDF format (516KB)

Lund, K., Burgess, C., & Audet, C. (1996). Dissociating semantic and associative word relationships using high-dimensional semantic space. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Press. Available in PDF format (1.8MB)

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., Audet, C., & Arambel, S. (1996). Timecourse, context effects, and the processing of lexical ambiguity in the cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition, 30, 277-280. Available in PDF format (774KB)

Lund, K., & Burgess, C. (1996). Producing high-dimensional semantic spaces from lexical CO-occurrence Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation, and Computers, 28, 203-208. Available in PDF format (1.4MB)

Burgess, C., & Chiarello, C. (1996). Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying metaphor comprehension and other figurative language. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 11, 67-84. Available in PDF format (8.7MB)

Atchley, R. A., Burgess, C., & Keeney, M., (1996). Summation Priming in the Cerebral Hemispheres: Effects of Practice. Brain and Cognition, 32, 202. Available in PDF format (129KB)

Lund, K., Burgess, C., & Atchley, R.A. (1995). Semantic and associative priming in high-dimensional semantic space. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 660-665). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers. Available in PDF format (2.5MB)

Symposium: Developing Cognitive and Neural Models of High-dimensional Semantic Space. TENNET VI (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology) May 1995, Montreal. Organized by Curt Burgess. Brain and Cognition, 1996, 30, 265-266. (This reprint contains the three published abstracts from the symposium). Available in PDF format (323KB)

Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (March, 1995). Automatic Extraction of High-Dimensional Semantics from Corpora and Human Syntactic Processing Constraints. Paper presented at the 8th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, AZ. (This "reprint" is a one page abstract of this CUNY paper. The Burgess & Lund, 1997, Language and Cognitive Processes paper contains most of this information) Available in PDF format (358KB)

Symposium at the Cognitive Science Society Conference. Burgess, C., & Cottrell, G. (1995). Using high-dimensional semantic spaces derived from large text corpora. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.13-14). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers. (Contains symposium overview and list of symposium presenters and their paper titles.) Available in PDF format (710KB)

Burgess, C., & Lund, K. (1994). Multiple constraints in syntactic ambiguity resolution: A connectionist account of psycholinguistic data. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 90-95). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers. Available in PDF format (2.3MB)

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Hoffman, M. (1994). Parafoveal and Semantic Effects on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ:Erlbaum Publishers. Available in PDF format (1.5MB)

Peterson, R. R., & Burgess, C. (1993).Syntactic and semantic processing during idiom comprehension: Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic dissociations. In Cacciari, C., & Tabossi, P. (Eds.), Idioms: Processing, Structure, and Interpretation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Press. Available in PDF format (18.8MB)

Burgess, C., & Skodis, J. (1993). Lexical representation and morpho-syntactic parallelism in the left hemisphere. Brain and Language, 44, 129-138. Available in PDF format (2.2MB)

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Marks, N. (1992). Orthographic and semantic similarity in auditory rhyme decisions. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 732-736). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers. Available in PDF format (2.6MB)

Chiarello, C., Burgess, C., Richards, L., & Pollock, A. (1990). Semantic and associative priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Some words do, some words don't . . . sometimes, some places. Brain and Language, 38, 75-104. Available in PDF format (13.6MB)

Burgess, C., Tanenhaus, M.K., & Seidenberg, M.S. (1989). Context and lexical access: Implications of nonword interference for lexical ambiguity resolution. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 620-632. Available in PDF format (13.6MB)

Simpson, G.B.; Peterson, R.R.; Casteel, Mark A., & Burgess, Curt (1989). Lexical and sentence context effects in word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 88-97. Available in PDF format (6.7MB)

Burgess, C., & Hollbach, S.C. (1988). A computational model of syntactic ambiguity as a lexical process. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.263-269). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Publishers. Available in PDF format (4.7MB)

Burgess, C., & Simpson, GB (1988). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms in the retrieval of ambiguous word meanings. Brain and Language, 33, 86-103. Available in PDF format (9.8MB)

Burgess, C., & Simpson, G. (1988). Neuropsychology of lexical ambiguity resolution: The contribution of divided visual field studies. In S. L. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution in the comprehension of human language. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Tanenhaus, M. K., Burgess, C., & Seidenberg, M. (1988). Is multiple access an artifact of backward priming? In S. L. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution in the comprehension of human language. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Available in PDF format (7.9MB)

Simpson, G. B., & Burgess, C. (1988). Implications of lexical resolution for word recognition and comprehension. In S. L. Small, G. W. Cottrell, & M. K. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution in the comprehension of human language. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Available in PDF format (7.9MB)

Simpson, GB; Burgess, C., & Peterson, RR (1988). Human comprehension processes and the indeterminacy of meaning. Cognitive Systems, 2, 213-232. Available in PDF format (8.9MB)

Burgess, C., & Rosen, A.B. (April 1988). Priming of emotional words in the cerebral hemispheres. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Linguistic Studies Conference. Syracuse University. Available in PDF format (3.6MB)

Tanenhaus, M. K., Burgess, C., Hudson-D'Zmura, S., & Carlson, G. (1987). Thematic roles in language processing. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 587-596). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Publishers. Available in PDF format (4.6MB)

Clark, F. J., & Burgess, C. (1987). Systems for producing precise movements of a joint over a wide range of speeds and displacements for tests of a static-position sense. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 19, 193-201.

Clark, F. J., Burgess, C., & Chapin, J. W. (1986). Proprioception with the proximal interphalangeal joint of the index finger: Evidence for a movement sense without a static-position sense. Brain, 109, 1-14. Available in PDF format (7.2MB)

Clark, F. J., Burgess, C., Chapin, J. W., & Lipscomb, W. L. (1985). The role of intramuscular receptors in limb position sense. Journal of Neurophysiology, 54, 1529-1540. Available in PDF format (6.1MB)

Simpson, G. B., & Burgess, C. (1985). Activation and selection processes in the recognition of ambiguous words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 28-39. Available in PDF format (11.6MB)

Salomon, K. & Burgess, C. (1984). Patron presence during the online search: Attitudes of university librarians. Online Review, 8, 549-558. Available in PDF format (4.8MB)

Simpson, G., & Burgess, C. (1984). PET programs for demonstration and student research in cognitive psychology. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 16, 65-66. Available in PDF format (2.6MB)